Making saints
Peter Burke, 18 October 1984
Saints and Society: The Two Worlds of Western Christendom 1000-1700
by Donald Weinstein and Rudolph Bell.
Chicago, 314 pp., £21.25, February 1983,0 226 89055 4 Show More
by Donald Weinstein and Rudolph Bell.
Chicago, 314 pp., £21.25, February 1983,
The Norman Conquest and Beyond
by Frank Barlow.
Hambledon, 318 pp., £22, June 1983,0 907628 19 2 Show More
by Frank Barlow.
Hambledon, 318 pp., £22, June 1983,
Miracles and the Medieval Mind
by Benedicta Ward.
Scolar, 321 pp., £17.50, November 1983,0 85967 609 9 Show More
by Benedicta Ward.
Scolar, 321 pp., £17.50, November 1983,
The Great Debate on Miracles: From Joseph Glanvill to David Hume
by R.M. Burns.
Associated University Presses, 305 pp., £17.50, July 1983,0 8387 2378 0 Show More
by R.M. Burns.
Associated University Presses, 305 pp., £17.50, July 1983,
Saints and their Cults: Studies in Religious Sociology, Folklore and History
edited by Stephen Wilson.
Cambridge, 435 pp., £35, December 1983,0 521 24978 3 Show More
edited by Stephen Wilson.
Cambridge, 435 pp., £35, December 1983,
“... Side by side with the formally canonised saints, defined by the centre of religious authority, Rome, there survived informally-chosen holy people, but their cult was local not universal, and permitted not obligatory. This two-tier system lasted till the end of the Middle Ages, or, more exactly, till 1523. There followed a hiatus of 65 years during which no ... ”
